Tag Archives: iPhone

Distimo- App Store Analytics

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App Store App Counts (graph) - Increasing from 200,000 apps to 300,000

App Store Apps Increase from 200,000 to 300,000 published mobile apps

Distimo have released the October edition of their App Store Report revealing some interesting facts:

  • The number of applications in the Apple App Store has grown from just under 200,000 in April 2010 to over 300,000 in October 2010.
  • The average price of the top 100 paid applications in October 2010 is 171% higher in the Apple App Store for iPad than in the Apple App Store for iPhone; $5.80 compared with $2.14, respectively.
  • Angry Birds was the top paid application in both the Apple App Store for iPhone and Palm App Catalog in September 2010.

Get the full report

UI Guidelines for Common Mobile / Tablet Apps

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Mobile Web Programming have a nice list of official UI guidelines for popular devices, which is pretty cool as I can’t stand apps that don’t follow the expected design patterns.

Have a look – UI Guidelines for mobile and tablet web app design

They’ve missed out the Windows Phone 7 UI Design and Interaction Guide

Site Seeing – Week Five

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Ninite – Easy PC Software Installations

http://ninite.com/

Auto installs your selection of useful programs after that inevitable Windows install.. It’s even clever enough to prevent it installing those nasty bundled toolbars! (via @fry15)

Font Fonter – Preview Fonts On Any Site

http://fontfonter.com/

From fontshop, this tool lets you preview a selection of their fonts on any webpage of your choice. Try Bencollier.net in FF Duper Web.

Sharekit – Open source, drop-in share features for all iOS apps

http://getsharekit.com/

Enables sharing via Delicious, Email, Facebook, Google Reader, Instapaper, Pinboard, Read It Later, Tumblr, Twitter and more! Just simply copy the files into your iOS app. The whole UI can be customised and it’s open source!